the journey continues- frek interacts with strange inhabitants form alien worlds-the heart chakra opens at about the 13 minute mark shades of starsailing for the Lincoln the Chain gang at about 8 minutes-

"Hey Motorman" was written for the 100 year celebration of the Ariel Lift Bridge. The bridge was originally built in 1907 with a gondola that went from side to side carrying passengers and vehicles. It was later replaced with a lift system.

I'm trying to experiment with intentionally combining two different sounds. Since I seem to find this difficult I am starting with using a drone as one of the sounds taking my inspiration from the opening tracks of the Brian Eno & Jah Wobble…

Flinch I'm guilty I took the bait again And here I am again Always with the same stupid grin And I didn't go as planned Few things do I've learned From the top I pulled it but I didn't see how far you'd go didn't I see you flinch…

A beautiful song by our fellow Canadian Bruce Cockburn. Guitars by Dave Berry Vocals and Moog synth by Sandy Gritt

This evolved out of an exercise in a workbook I just got on music composition. The original task was to write a melody in the Dorian mode about water...

This an improvisation in 17 notes per octave with layered software synthesizers. Specifically, various percussion ensembles, french horn, piano, and two synthesizers. At one point I forgot what in the world I was doing because I transposed the…

from the album "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocals and slide guitar from Gregg Todt My father says, it's not enough This mortal strife, gets too rough And sinners dance, upon your grave Waiting for, your bones to bleed The hardest blow…

'...remotely 'Bird'-like experiment...' (Charlie Parker reference)

I have issues at my house, sometimes they manifest themselves in my tracks. In this case, the bassoon and oboe represent the mouse. The guitar is the peanut-butter.

Sank a solid 17.5 hours into this one, so there won't be a complete album out of this 24 hour day. Had the structure floating around for a year; this is my first stab at it. There are definitely huge revisions in store.

WARNING! ADULT CONTENT or goofy great........ After a week of computer crashes, I finally got my gear all back to normal. I got my drum kit hooked up yesterday and did a test run which led to this bit of Saturday morning fun that only proves…

Take some words, do some numerology and then some math, take the riff of the numbers that came from the numerological words and then apply some Pi functions to the volume steps inside a tablature program then mess around some more inside fruity…

I elected to pursue my theme for RPM 2010 even though, ultimately, I decided not to take part. So I'm going at my own pace, not trying to produce "finished" works, or to be governed by anything except my experimental muse. The theme I chose…

Thinking about the day.

Pedal steel dreamscape and silly panic from the answering machine.

This song describes the part of my life journey that i find myself in these days. Seeking inward peace, knowing that I must continue to search....

Here's to the next one of us to die!